For s3 iDrive e2 is cheaper. It costs 4$ per month, if you pay monthly and down to ca 3$, if you pay yearly.

The egress policy is mostly the same as backblaze. You get 3 times the storage you pay for. With backblaze you get 3 times the average amount of data you have stored.

Down for me as well

I really enjoy boost.

I selfhost PhotoPrism.

I use a folder sync app, to upload all my pictures from my phone to a directory on my server, which PhotoPrism imports from every 15 mins(Might be a bit more or less).

I have used it for a couple of years and it has worked fine for me.

In Germany on a hetzner dedicated server.

You(and everyone else) are welcome at endlesstalk.org.

I prioritize uptime and have setup monitoring to notify, if anything goes down(See here). I have no problem banning/defederating Nazi’s and the like, but I generally don’t take action unless, an instance/users aren’'t following the rules. I’m open for requests and discussion though.

Currently I’m the only admin, but I’m in the process of changing the setup of the site, so other admins would be able to fix the site, if anything should happen.

Think they were clapping because the star vessel died yeah. I don’t think they cared who killed the star vessel.

My instance endlesstalk.org is hosted in Germany via Hetzner, so that should fit the bill.

Defederations are only done, when it would have a negative effect on the instance’s users, but I’m always open to discuss, if anyone disagrees with a deferation.

For a very small instance(10 users), you can try mine at endlesstalk.org. It also has multiple frontends hosted like lemmy.world and many others.

Otherwise I would recommend lemm.ee, lemmy.sdf.org and lemmy.zip

It is on my to-do list, but it would take some work to add support for multiple people to have access to everything required and I would also need a lot more documentation, than I currently have.

There are tools that can backup and migrate communities, blocks and settings like lasim for a user. So you can migrate between instances.

As far as I know, there aren’t any tools that can migrate comment history and I think anything that could do that, would need to be backed into lemmy itself(Which it isn’t currently).

Everyone is welcome to join my small instance at endlesstalk.org. I have also setup the same alternative UI’s as lemmy.world, if that rocks your boat!.

Yeah, until there are better tools than defederation to limit communication between instances. Might take a while though and I think they only said they would re-evaluate it, so no guarantee(more detail in the link above)

I have hosted a lot of my own services for a couple of years and plan to continue hosting my instance(endlesstalk.org) indefinitely, unless something very major happens.

As others have mentioned I think multiple admins and backups(hard to verify though) are a good sign, but its only indications and you can’t really be sure, if a instance will be there forever. I think there needs to be an easy way to migrate accounts and then the instances going down hopefully gives a notice, so you can move your account.

Gonna be difficult to recover accounts from instance going down without a notice I think. You could regularly take a backup of your account, but that is tedious and you will still lose some data.

They defederated from lemmy.world + sh.itjust.works(Not lemmy.ml) and you can see their reasoning here

Photoprism

My instance(endlesstalk.org) is very small, but you are welcome there.

I think most instances besides beehaw.org are federated with lemmy.world and lemmy.ml. So you should be able to look at join-lemmy or lemmyverse for servers to join.

If you want to check if a instance is defederating a specific instance, you can go to /instance on the instance and look under Blocked Instances

I’ll recommend my own instance at endlesstalk.org. There you can create a community, if you want. lemm.ee or sh.itjust.works might also allow creating of new communities, but I haven’t checked.

Usually, it is correct, that the all feed would be smaller on a small instance, but “seeders”, like lcs or lemmony can make the feed in all tab much larger.

It does this by subscribing to a lot communites. Lcs does for specific communities and lemmony subscribes to everything. You can see an example of an all tab with many subscriptions(added via lemmony) at my instance

I think the easist way to check, if an instance uses one of these seeders is to check the number of subscriptions in the instance. Or just ask the admin for the instance.

Unfortuntately I’m not sure, if I can do that much about the federation stuff, since its possible the other site isn’t sending everything out correctly. It also doesn’t seem to be feddit.de as a whole, as there are other communites from feddit.de, that works.

I will look into though and see if I can find anything, that my site is during, that could be causing the issue. Might take some time, since it is a bit tricky to debug.